Category: Donald Trump

Following a rash of sexual harassment scandals toppling powerful men in Hollywood, the news media and on Capitol Hill, three women alleging that President Donald Trump subjected them to unwanted sexual advances held a press conference calling for the president’s resignation Monday.

Roy Moore won a reprieve in his struggle to survive as a U.S. Senate candidate Thursday when the Alabama Republican Party affirmed it would continue backing him despite allegations that he sexually assaulted teenagers.

As we approach the holiday season there will be much debate on how President Trump has performed for his first calendar year. As a populist president, I think the best way to judge his performance is by focusing on the issues voters say are their top priorities. Pew Research polled voters to determine their political priorities […]

The mainstream media celebrated as a new book came out in which the two former Presidents Bush, George H.W. and George W., criticized Donald Trump, with Bush the Elder calling Trump a “blowhard” who is “driven by a certain ego.” As if there are no egos in the Bush clan.

Although the term “fake news” was not part of their lexicon, the Founding Fathers understood quite well the concept. Yet they still wanted to ensure the press was free of government interference and did so through the adoption of the 1st Amendment.

The previous administration created a policy that limited the power of the CIA. The current president has restored most of the CIA’s authority to carry out operations as CIA Director Mike Pompeo sees fit. Here are some of the biggest changes.

If Richard Nixon could go to China, and Ronald Reagan could go the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, why couldn’t Donald Trump go to Russia and broker a peace. Isn’t peace a better alternative?

Election 2016 featured all the benchmarks of a secret agent yarn. Campaign officials and political party flacks conspired with Russian agents to rig the 2016 US Presidential election. However, while Election 2016 and its fallout unraveled like a spy film, it was less “James Bond,” and more “Austin Powers.”

According to Rep. Frederica Wilson (D- Awesome Hats), President Trump told the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson, who was murdered, along with three of his fellow soldiers, by Islamic terrorists in Niger, “he knew what he signed up for … but when it happens, it hurts anyway.” While I have no doubt Trump’s condolences were delivered with his usual artlessness, I do doubt he took the call anything less than seriously. Trump may be crude, but he’s not cruel.

Despite seeing consequences faced by members of his campaign team who were caught up in the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, President Donald Trump is pushing full steam ahead for the NSA wiretapping program’s renewal.

I suppose President Donald Trump’s Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly constituted the official debut of the Trump Doctrine. And I suppose it’s fair to say the Trump Doctrine is exactly what I expected it to be.

Of all the concerns raised about President Donald Trump and his behavior in the Oval Office, perhaps one of the more sobering one is the way he and his allies have elevated a minority position within the GOP to a dominant policy agenda at the national level. Throughout his primary campaign, Trump spoke to…Read More »